Many musicians would be just fine with earning the kind of success seen by Lost Bayou Ramblers. The Grammy-winning Cajun band melded brothers Louis and Andre Michot’s traditional music heritage with ...
Oct. 13—I suspect that if you'd told Michael Doucet, back when he decided to form the Louisiana band BeauSoleil and explore, honor and curate the future of Cajun music, that they'd be going 45 years ...
Camping outside Boston, trying to save a few dollars while on tour, the Red Stick Ramblers confronted an unexpected nemesis. Soon after nightfall, raccoons invaded their camp, pilfering the musicians’ ...
A renowned Cajun sextet from Louisiana performed two shows in Alaska this weekend — unexpectedly, as a quintet. BeauSoleil — a two-time Grammy-winning band from Louisiana — is often known as ...
In 18 years of full-time touring, the members of BeauSoleil have visited all 50 states and many foreign countries. But in 2004, they still encountered new sights and experiences. For the first time, ...
Eleven years of touring with BeauSoleil, the two-time, Grammy-winning Cajun band, has brought Mitch Reed from the Andouille Festival in LaPlace to the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland. But in recent ...
The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...
Should one need evidence of Harry Choates’ standing as one of the great popular-music tragedies, look no further than Tim Knight’s biography, the title of which refers to the singer and fiddler as “a ...
Born in Church Point in 1929, Ellis Vanicor's Cajun sound would become indelibly linked with a little community smack in the middle of Jennings and Lake Charles — Lacassine. A self-taught fiddler, ...